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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immanuel Kant

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
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Experience Teaching
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Enjoyment Judgement Liberty Power Reason
I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
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Faith Knowledge Myself Necessary
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
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Genius Independent Learning Person
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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Humanity Man Philosophy
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
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Independent Man Understand
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
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Break Up End People
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
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Himself World
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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Greatness People Respect Worth
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
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Bad Philosophy Protection Weakness
You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
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Freedom Moral Willing Yourself
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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Children Patience Time Truth
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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